Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-03-19
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1887.
GRANT PITZER, Local Editor
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"MY Hearers" next Friday night.

any Hearers" next Friday night.
NOTICE our bristling array of ads.
RHEUMATIsM and colds are numer-
Gus.
The little defective flue is getting in
it's work.
More cold weather and innumerable
sore throats.
Mr. GEORGE KILMER has qualified
as everseer of the Almshouse.
THE hens are on strike. Too soon,
hennies, Easter is quite way off yet.
Say. look here old gal Winter, isn't it
about time for you to vermoose
Scat
HAGERsTowN wants electric lights.
What she wants she generally gets, so
get the burners.
MOVING day is approaching. Hus-
bands have only twelve days OF quletude
and pleasure.
Sixty pounds of creamery butter were
sold in MaItinsburg last week for thirty
cents per pound.
THE husbands dreams are now dis
turbed by visions in which spring bon
nets figure conspicuously.
Mr.. JOHN SNoDEAL was parayzed
on Tuesday morning and has been IN
critical condition ever since.
The INDEPENDENT has been rushing
things in the public sale line. Nice
bills and snowy advert isemeats, cheap
Thee. V. r.. r. time table was
changed again last Sunday. Be sure
and notice the new schedule on the in
side of this issue.
THERE will be the usual preaching
at the Grange Hall on the Williamsport
pike, next Sabbath tomorrow, 20th)at
half past three p. m.
Mr.. ALEX LINTON, by appointment
of the county court, has superseded Mr..
Joseph Thatcher (who resigned) as road
surveyor in Gerardstown district.
THE new ad of Mr.. Noble Fisher in
this issue shows that the wise men are
on the increase. Read it, buy stove,
and go to housekeeping, young folks
THE sale of the household and kitch
en- furniture of Mr.. w. A. Pitzer, last
Saturday, was we'll attended and prop
erty sold well. Nothing like advertis-
ing, you know.
ERRATA.-The date of the Trustees
sale of Traction Engine and Fixtures,
byJ. N. Thatcher, should be Saturday,
April End, instead of March 10th, as APP
peared last week.
Rev S.: backing away You got
your match that time. j. r. C.-'Yes,
and if you come close enough I'll light
you off aud set fire to your empty head.
Selah
THE largest pension ever granted to a
citizen of Morgan county was obtained
by Mrs. Mary Moreland, widow of John
Moreland. I he amount allowed was
$2.24413
The b. & o. schedule changed again
Wednesday March 9th. Trains Nos. SO
and 81, discontinued, and trains Nos.
and will stop at Shenandoah juno
ton.
BY the present Schedule, the Cum
berland Valley r.. r. are enabled to
receive Fast Local Freight from Phil
adelphia & Baltimore at 925 a m. leav
ing those points as late as p. m. the
day before,
WE congratulate friend Harrison, OF
Shepherdstown on his election as mayor
of that city. Under his judicious sup
erintendency the fair daughter of old
Jefferson will prosper and wax strong.
MRS. CAsKEY, an estimable lady and
wife of our friend Edward Caskey,
died at her home in Strinesville last
Tuesday morning. She leaves a hus-
band ard eight children, with whom
our sympathy rests.
PROF. Cox is proving first rate in
structor. Order is the rule of schools
as we'll as of the universe, and the pro-
fessor should have it, We hope he will
be so successful as TO stop growing and
grumbling in the future about the
Grammar School.